♥ Desert Rose Word Candy ♫: 2018

Friday, November 2, 2018

"Pushback" by John E. Stith!

Hiya peeps! I'm excited to share this brand new release with you today! It just came out yesterday, fresh off the presses, so be sure to check it out!

Pushback

~Publisher: ReAnimus Press

~Released: November 1, 2018

~Length: 336 Pages

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At his ten-year high-school reunion, Colorado investment counselor Dave Barlow, who suffers from PTSD, finds he doesn’t know one person there, and soon realizes he must outwit an unknown antagonist before he winds up dead.

“Some people dream about going to their high-school reunion in their underwear. Dave Barlow goes to his and finds himself worse than naked — unrecognized. A lovely, twisty thriller that moves like a roller coaster — racheting up the suspense, then plunging into crisis, or doing a swift loop-the-loop through flashbacks of PTSD before the climb stars again.” — Diana Gabaldon, New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series.

“PUSHBACK is a fast-paced crime novel guaranteed to keep you reading into the night. Accelerating through enough twists and turns to keep you guessing, PUSHBACK ramps up to a heart-pounding ending that will leave you breathless. Stith, known for his award-winning science fiction, really brings it home in his debut mystery. Bring on the next installment!” — Chris Goff, author of RED SKY

"Madam Velvet's Cabaret of Oddities" by Nancy Stohlman!

Hiya peeps! Happy early Halloween! =D

I'm sharing a fun book with you today, released just in time for the spooky season! What's even more fun, is it also celebrates the 250th anniversary of the circus!

Check out this collection of flash fiction, featuring vaudeville stories of the weird, absurd and bizarre cabaret. Step right up to meet a woman so determined to be a star, she'll try anything! There's also a guest post by the author Nancy Stohlman, where she talks about why she thinks people enjoy taboo and oddly grotesque things.

Check it out, and be sure to drop a comment and share the post with anyone who enjoys odd stories! =D

Madam Velvet's Cabaret of Oddities

~Author: Nancy Stohlman

~Length: 101 Pages

~Released: October 5th, 2018

~Publisher: Big Table Publishing

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Step right up and meet a woman so determined to be a star she’ll try anything, including spray on Instant Fame! Meet her reflection, who dreams of a life of her own and manages to find love on the Internet! See the man desperately trying to earn a world record in the most bizarre way possible! Learn the origins of the Four-Legged Woman and the Human Skeleton! Clown mothers, suicidal ringmasters, cult leader who teach the cha-cha and Alaska Jackson’s Traveling Medicine Show…each one takes center stage in this vaudeville of flash fiction. Flash fiction, microfiction, short-short stories… regardless of the name, it’s all the same—a compressed story that packs a punch. Enter a cabaret of the weird, the absurd, and the bizarre with this bold and bawdy new collection.

"Magic Harvest" Book Tour Stop with Giveaway & Review!

Hiya peeps! I'm super excited to share this book with you today. It looked so good, I just had to review it! Check that out below, along with book and author info! =D

"The Gathering" Tour Stop, with Excerpt & Giveaway!

Hiya peeps! The Gathering sounds like an epic book, and I'm excited to share it with you today! I've got an exclusive excerpt for you to sample some of the story, and a #giveaway at the end of the post, so be sure to enter!

"Looking for Dei" Book Tour & Giveaway!

Hiya guys and dolls! Check out this awesome new young adult fantasy! If the cover doesn't grip you, I'm sure the blurb will. There's also a giveaway at the end of the post - be sure to enter for your chance to win an awesome prize!

"Through the Glass" Blitz with Guest Post & Giveaway!

Hiya guys and dolls! Check out this suspenseful romance, by Erica Kiefer! I've included a guest post by the author (with pictures!) about what it was like to create this series, as well as a giveaway!

Through the Glass

The Window Series, #2

~Author: Erica Kiefer

~Publisher: CTP Pulse

~Published: April 3rd 2018

~Genres: Romance, Suspense, Young Adult

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Still reeling from the discovery of her twin sister, Olivia struggles to face her mother’s betrayal. As Olivia and her friends seek to unravel the dark mystery of how and why the twins were separated, tensions escalate when Emma runs into her sister’s ex—who assumes she’s Olivia. When honesty is abandoned for more secrets and lies, the fallout between the sisters only intensifies. As they sift between truth and deception, it becomes clear that matters of the heart are not as transparent as they may seem.

A page-turning mystery laced with romance and emotional drama, Through the Glass is the satisfying conclusion to the Window Series duology by Erica Kiefer.

"Moral Panic" Blog Tour & Guest Post!

Hiya guys and dolls! I've got a sci-fi adventure for you guys. Check out the guest post from the author, all about the best part of writing thrillers/crime novels! I actually live pretty close to this author geographically at the moment, and am excited to be able to support a local author!

Check it out!

Moral Panic

~Author: K.M. Ecke

~Released: March 16th, 2018

~Length: 250 Pages

~Genres: Adult Fiction, Sci-Fi

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If anything can be hacked, nothing can be trusted.

Tanner Moore is at the top of his game in the high stakes world of big technology. As chief technology officer of Paragon, the largest corporation in the world, he is about to release the greatest convenience innovation in the history of commerce: drone delivery service to every inch of the globe.

But when an interview with journalist Amy Noral is secretly recorded and published by the clickbait media, Tanner’s fall from grace is swift and brutal.

Tanner is fired, publicly condemned as a terrorist for comments he never made, and kidnapped by a mysterious vigilante group who use surveillance data to track and kill their enemies. Tanner must navigate their underground world full of violent zealots and mental manipulation to find his way to freedom, or see his drone technology used as the most advanced assassination tool ever devised.

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Moral Panic explores the collision of the most extreme elements of politics, ideology and technological media manipulation. It navigates through a maze of modern surveillance with a skeptical eye on the data-driven world we live in, to bring an awareness of the possibility of such a story coming true in the real world.

Cover Reveal for "Something of Substance" by Tia Souders!

Hiya guys and dolls! Check out this awesome cover for an upcoming young adult contemporary novel! =D

Something of Substance

~Author: Tia Souders

~Released: March 28th 2018

~Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary

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Seventeen-year-old Grace Michaels is determined to be thin, even if she dies trying.

Part of the in-crowd at Providence High, she is steps away from being asked out by the most desired guy at school, winning a prom queen nomination, and her parents’ approval. If she can just get skinny enough, be pretty enough, and popular enough.

But Grace is thin on the outside and fat on the inside. No amount of weight-loss ever seems enough. Convinced the melting pounds will solve her problems, every pound lost brings her closer to her goals. But flesh and bone can only hide the weight of her secret for so long before it kills her.

Fans of the emotional and thought-provoking contemporary YA fiction, such as Before I Fall, Tell Me Three Things, and All The Bright Places will fall in love with Souder’s heart-wrenching novel, Something of Substance.

…Coming March 28th, 2018!

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